Sentences with phrase «since taking over the school»

Since taking over the school two weeks ago, Conner has moved swiftly to restructure second - through fifth - grade classes to intensify and individualize instruction in English and math.

Not exact matches

The 340 - student school took over $ 10 million in public funding since 2010.

And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.

It's easy enough to get your apple a day, since they are easily taken along to work or school, and make a handy snack that can hold you over a few hours until your next meal.

It's been almost eight years since Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney launched Meat Free Monday, and since that time the campaign has grown phenomenally, with individuals, businesses — not to mention over a thousand UK schools — taking part.

For our 20th, since we didn't get to take a big trip or anything (he taught for the summer session of school), he surprised me with a bunch of my favorite concerts over the last month, including New Kids On The Block / Paula Abdul, David Archuleta, the Utah Symphony and GENTRI and we got to spend some time together in Salt Lake City.

After attending several distilling schools across the country, Barrett, who is color blind (hence the name Black Button — the family joked that if he ever took over the button factory, they would have to switch to only making black buttons), returned to Rochester, NY to realize his dream and open the first craft distillery in the Rochester since prohibition.

«We are trying to instill the team concept and develop a camaraderie and team spirit,» Iverson said of taking the program over for longtime coach Carl Massey, who retired after teaching and coaching in the El Dorado County School System for 37 years, including at Oak Ridge since it first opened in 1980.

Moved from Dallas in middle school, in the early 70's, and life has taken me all over the Country since.

I was a stay - at - home mum until then, but since the children started school I began these endeavours and years later it has now taken over my life!

Since I thought a few of you may be in the same boat as me with the bustle of the school year taking over,........

When pressed for specifics, a spokesperson for Stringer pointed to wasted funds on technology initiatives, failure to detect collusion to drive up prices by food suppliers, late release of 70 % pre-kindergarten contract information prior to the 2014 school year, and overpaying on custodial supplies, which Stringer has pointed out over the last three - plus years since he took office as Comptroller and de Blasio became Mayor.

«I think that we should completely eliminate schools under trees... I remember that in 2010 when we did the survey, it was said that there were 4, 200 schools under trees; since then, we've kept taking them out and I must say we've taken out more than 1, 700 schools under trees; and I believe that over the next five years, up to 2020, if we should continue at the rate we are going, we should be able to take out all the 4, 200 schools under trees,» President Mahama said in an interview with Radio BAR as part of his «Accounting to the People» tour.

Since then, the sources said, a battle has continued over payments for «education costs and health care» for 20 - year - old daughters Cara and Mariah, who attend Harvard and Brown universities, respectively, and Michaela, 18, who recently graduated from high school a few months after being taken to the Westchester County Medical Center after an unexplained incident in which she was found unconscious at her mother's home.

Since then, Superintendent Kriner Cash has taken over as superintendent and cut ties with a controversial attorney brought in by the former school board majority to take a hard line on negotiations.

A member of the School Board since 2012, she has been one of Paladino's main adversaries, even before she took over as president last year.

The Christian Council of Ghana says there has been a «continuous decline in the provision of quality education and moral formation among students since government took over the management of mission schools in the country.»

«Since high school, this has been the peak of my learning curve,» he says of his first months preparing to take over the research portfolio.

She doesn't seem to view herself as very sexy or lovable; since school has always taken precedence over boys for her, she is rather flattered by the attention Michael is showing her.

Both films take the form of curdled dark comedies about raging misanthropes who abuse their positions of authority — or at least their power over small children, since drunken mall Santas and Chicago's public - school teachers both lack real power — to engage in criminal schemes.

For that I will be pleased, but since I made took that step over ten years ago, I feel like I'm in high school all over again since Homework didn't really do much for me.

Ever since the Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) manifesto was launched in 2008, highlighting the powerful educational value of school trips, when asked whether the benefits of taking pupils on educational visits outweigh concerns over cost and safety, teachers and instructors have always answered with a resounding «yes».

Sponsored academies, underperforming schools who have been taken over by an academy sponsor, that have been opened for two academic years were found to have result improved by 2.3 per cent, on average, since 2014.

A Texas transplant, former high school assistant principal Donald W. Salm told Education World he is impressed with the caring staff and community members he has met since taking over as principal of Beatrice Rafferty School on the Passamaquoddy reservation in Perry, school assistant principal Donald W. Salm told Education World he is impressed with the caring staff and community members he has met since taking over as principal of Beatrice Rafferty School on the Passamaquoddy reservation in Perry, School on the Passamaquoddy reservation in Perry, Maine.

Since Arne Duncan took over as Secretary of Education ~ his YouTube channelhas uploaded more than 450 videos and counting (currently 462) ~ which follow many of his television spots ~ speeches and school appearances and address some of the tough questions he regularly receives.

The conflict centered on whether the board or the advisory council had ultimate authority over the school since the reform measure took effect.

Since 2010 over 47,000 young people have taken part in this free project and the Design Museum team has worked with a diverse range of schools to ensure it continues to meet the needs of teachers and learners alike.

On November 13, 2014, Rick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute hosted a discussion with Cami Anderson, superintendent of Newark Public Schools since 2011, focusing on the challenges she has faced since taking over a system with a 50 percent graduation rate.

Since the introduction of grant - maintained schools back in the 1980s, state schools have been able to take more control over their finances and the way they are run.

Firstly the good news: since the introduction of the new curriculum, the numbers taking GCSE Computer Science have increased each year with over 67 000 or roughly 12 per cent of candidates taking the exam this summer and the majority of secondary schools entering candidates.

Since Justine Greening was appointed Education Secretary, taking over from her predecessor Nicky Morgan, the government has backed away from its controversial plans to force all schools to convert into an academy — as initially set out in the Educational Excellence Everywhere white paper.

The Bradley family is especially egregious as they were running the schools when the state took over a few years ago and have been doing their utmost to get a hold of the piggy bank ever since.

Since Meloche took over as superintendent of the 11,000 - student district more than two years ago, students have brought problems to the surface that school leaders didn't see on their own.

Just curious - since teaching is so easy and everyone is an expert on how to do it - suppose Arne Duncan were to take over a classroom of impoverished kids in a tough city school.

Since then, it has opened one new school and taken over the operations of two existing schools.

While Exceed charter group looked to take over the remaining schools, it has since withdrawn its application.

The speech was Vargas» first State of Our Schools speech since taking over when Jean - Claude Brizard left the district to run Chicago Public Schools last year.

At the same time, there has been a growing backlash against school accountability, despite the fact that Colorado has not forced any schools or districts to make radical changes since the ham handed take over of Cole middle school over a decade ago.

This is the most dramatic change in school management since Tom Boasberg took over the school system in 2009.

A year and a half has passed since the de Blasio administration took over the Department of Education, assuming control of 1,800 schools, 70,000 teachers, and 1.1 million students.

Since taking office, Team Malloy / Wyman have dumped over $ 450 million in scarce taxpayer funds into charter schools in Connecticut, although these schools consistently discriminate against children who require special services, children who aren't fluent in the English language and children who won't adhere to the charter school's abusive «no - excuses» disciplinary policies designed to push out children with behavioral issues.

The law, known as «parent trigger,» passed in California in 2010 and has since been adopted by six other states — Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas — though parents have not yet taken over schools in any of them.

Three of the four schools run by Midland Academies Trust, which is sponsored by North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, are rated «requires improvement»; two have fallen from «good» since the trust took over and another only recently rose from «inadequate».

Her remarks appeared to be her strongest endorsement of public schools since taking office just over a month ago.

Over $ 9 million for Minneapolis Public Schools is at stake if teachers approve the agreement that has already been approved by the Minneapolis Public Schools Board and accepted by the Minnesota Department of Education.Members of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) are casting their votes this week to determine if our district should take part in the Quality Compensation (Q Comp) program offered by the state since 2005.

Still, since 1996 Mississippi has taken over 15 districts for various reasons, including financial mismanagement and poor academic performance, and it is set to take over more schools this year.

Ballard has argued since even before the state took over Donnan Middle School and Manual, Howe and Arlington high schools that he should be in charge of monitoring the outside groups brought in to run them.

In the years since Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, progress in schools in the Recovery School District, a state - run district that takes over failing schools, has drawn national acclaim.

In the 11 years since the state took over Philadelphia, the district has gone through an array of overhauls, including the hand - off of school operations to outfits such as Edison Schools, and even the hard work of reformers such as Paul Vallas (who began Chicago's successful school reform effort and has just finished up a successful stint overseeing the revamp of New Orleans» school system).

The Children First charter has been active since 2008 when Edkey, Inc. took over the charter from the Thomas J. Pappas School for the Homeless, which was shut down due to financial difficulties.